Review: Breaking the Rules by Katie McGarry
SYNOPSIS:
A summer road trip changes everything…
For new high school graduate Echo Emerson, a summer road trip out west with her boyfriend means getting away and forgetting what makes her so… different. It means seeing cool sights while selling her art at galleries along the way. And most of all, it means almost three months alone with Noah Hutchins, the hot, smart, soul-battered guy who’s never judged her. Echo and Noah share everything — except the one thing Echo’s just not ready for.
But when the source of Echo’s constant nightmares comes back into her life, she has to make some tough decisions about what she really wants — even as foster kid Noah’s search for his last remaining relatives forces them both to confront some serious truths about life, love, and themselves.
Now, with one week left before college orientation, jobs and real life, Echo must decide if Noah’s more than the bad-boy fling everyone warned her he’d be. And the last leg of an amazing road trip will turn… seriously epic.
REVIEW:
I liked this book…but it totally could have been a novella if you cut out all the unnecessary drama and side plots. So then why read it? Well I really wanted to know about Noah’s past and I wanted to see if Echo would try to form some type of relationship with her mother. Additionally, I am planning to start the next novel in the series and I didn’t want any lingering details to be lost because I didn’t read this book.
So in terms of plot, I really enjoyed seeing Echo and Noah’s relationship evolve over the course of summer. They went from teens to adults and really matured. I loved that there were hints into what was happening with Beth and Isaiah and I absolutely adore Ms. Collins. I think every school needs a therapist/counselor like her, maybe there wouldn’t be so much darkness floating around then.
But what I could have done with a lot less of is the drama. At times, it felt like these characters were fight for the sake of dragging out the novel. Some of the fights were pointless and didn’t contribute anything to the story line. Okay, that’s a lie, the majority of the fights were pointless and didn’t contribute anything to the story line. Hence why I think if you removed the pointless fighting, this could have been a short, satisfying novella, as opposed to the dragged out story it felt like.
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